Forest Service Fails to Protect Fens

Forest Service Fails to Protect Fens

by Ann Vileisis The U.S. Forest Service recently denied a petition brought by 27 conservation groups from 14 states urging the agency to adopt a rule to better protect the special type of peat-forming wetlands known as fens. Nourished by the continual flow of...
Reading the Rings

Reading the Rings

by Susan J. Tweit Say the word “dendrochronology,” and what comes to mind? Perhaps a tree cross-section showing concentric circles of annual rings, with arrows pointing to the rings from years that mark historical human events. But there is so much more to the science...
Excerpted from ‘This Land’

Excerpted from ‘This Land’

When Congress passed the 2009 Omnibus Public Land Management Act, one of Barack Obama’s major public lands initiatives, it included a provision for a new program of management of national forests that promised “collaborative, science-based ecosystem restoration” of...